[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and SMP

[Steve Szmidt]

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On Thursday 12 August 2004 09:19 am, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> I just pulled the hard drive and scsi card out of my optiplex (single cpu
> p2 400) and installed it in a dell workstation 400 (dual cpu p2 300).
>
> I pulled 2.4.27(I think) from kernel.org and recompiled it for SMP on this
> box and rebooted. All is well.
>
> Does anyone think I "downgraded", going from a single 400 to dual 300's? I
> was hoping that going to a dual system would give it an edge, and make the
> box capable of handling 1-4 voip calls without skipping a beat. I guess
> we'll see... (Not that I have the hardware to do 4 calls right now, but I
> will, later.)

You went from about 400MHz to about 600MHz, and you added a processor that can 
run threads independently from the first one. 

Nah, I would not call that a downgrade.

And if you add a SIP phone like a Snom200, you could handle 4 calls over the 
Internet. 

- -- 
Steve

"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
                                Benjamin Franklin

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